2.5 Project Reports

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29JUL 2011
2 Research
WOM: An object model for MediaWiki’s Wikitext
Wikipedia is a rich encyclopedia that is not only of great use to its contributors and readers but also to researchers and providers of third party software around Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia’s content is only available as Wikitext, the markup language in which articles on Wikipedia are written. Unfortunately, those parsers which convert Wikitext into a […]
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18JUN 2011
2.5 Project Reports
Open Source Licenses and Community Growth
You may have been reading Matt Aslett’s analysis of the trend to permissive licensing as well Gordon Half’s discussion of this trend. I enjoyed reading them and agree with the overall trend. I don’t quite agree with the predicted downfall of Copyleft licenses, though, and I love the irony of it. Strong copyleft licenses play […]
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14MAY 2011
2 Research
The Sweble Wikitext Parser Offer to the Wikipedia Community
Our offer to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia (technical) community is this: Come up with a new and better Wikitext and use the Sweble Wikitext parser to convert old Wikipedia content to that new format. Naturally, the new Wikitext format should work well with visual editors etc. We have spent more than one year […]
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03MAY 2011
2 Research
Using CrystallBall, the Sweble Parser Demo
CrystallBall is our parser demo so that you don’t have to get down to code to check out the parser. It is a simple and easy way to see how we interpret Wikitext. The general Sweble Parser documentation is on the wiki, naturally. Here are a few examples, though, for the hurried among you. Please […]
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01MAY 2011
2 Research
Announcing the Open Source Sweble Wikitext Parser v1.0
We are happy to announce the general availability of the first public release of the Sweble Wikitext parser, available from http://sweble.org. The Sweble Wikitext parser can parse all complex Wikitext, incl. tables and templates produces a real abstract syntax tree (AST); a DOM will follow soon is open source made available under the Apache Software […]
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01MAY 2011
2 Research
Sweble Website Launch
Finally, our Sweble [1] project site has launched! And with it one of our first projects is going Open Source: The Wikitext Parser, developed at the Open Source Research Group at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. [1] The Sweble project develops and provides libaries and components for a MediaWiki compatible wiki software. An important focus is wiki […]
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